Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems

This practical guide draws on cognitive science and work with Fortune 500 companies to help readers develop essential collaborative skills.
 
Collaborative intelligence is a measure of our ability to think with others on behalf of what matters to us all. It is emerging as a new professional currency at a time when influence is more important than power, and success relies on the ability to inspire. 
 
Through a series of practices and strategies, this book helps us develop our own collaborative intelligence. The authors teach us how to value intellectual diversity and recognize our own mind patterns. By mapping the talents of our teams, we’re able to embark together on an aligned course of action and influence.

Collaborative Intelligence is the culmination of more than fifty years of original research that draws on Dawna Markova’s background in cognitive neuroscience and her most recent work, with Angie McArthur, as a “Professional Thinking Partner” to some of the world’s top CEOs and creative professionals. In their experience, managers who appreciate intellectual diversity will lead their teams to innovation; employees who understand it will thrive because they are in touch with their strengths; and an entire team who understands it will come together to do their best work in a symphony of collaboration.

J. Richard Hackman is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of the award-winning Leading Teams and coauthor of Groups That Work and Senior Leadership Teams. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association’s division on industrial and organizational psychology, both the Distinguished Educator Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Academy of Management, and the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups.